Are Rebound Relationships Doomed To Fail? We Asked The Experts.
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The answer may surprise you.
Picture this: Fresh out of a long-term relationship, with emotional wounds still throbbing, you meet the perfect guy or girl. Or you come upon your dream partner, but he or she just left a marriage. Is all hope lost?
It’s easy to get lost in a rebound, hence why it is the subject of so many songs, TV shows and movies. It was a plot line on “Friends.” A plot line on “New Girl.” Even a plot line on “The Big Bang Theory.”
Jennifer Lopez sings about it in her 2024 song named — can you guess? —“Rebound.” “Ran into your arms while runnin’ from the pain/ Ran past all the signs lookin’ for somethin’ safe/ Let you take advantage, so I could fill that space,” she sings.
In Adele’s song “Someone Like You,” she laments a lost lover while seeking his clone. “Roll to Me” by Del Amitri — a great ’90s song no one remembers — was my theme when my crush rebounded into my arms immediately after she broke up with her ex.
“We can have a general idea about best ways to engage and start and be in relationships, but every relationship is unique,” said Nikki Coleman, a psychologist and relationship expert who practices in Houston. Even a relationship that begins as a fling can flourish into something different.
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